[Quila]

The "basic concepts of Christianity" is quite simple -- Belief in the salvation of one's immortal soul through the blood and sacrifice of a sin-less Jesus Christ as a redemption or "payment" of our earthly sins. Nothing at all "pagan" about it.

Almost no religion is developed in a vacuum, and the Mediterranean region was a hotbed of religions before and during Christ's time. Ideas such as a virgin mother, physical incarnation of the god as a pure being, the god dying and being resurrected, a betrayer close at hand, etc., had already been done.

[F16Fighter]

"Ideas such as the virgin mother, physical incarnation of the god as a pure being, the god dying and being resurrected, a betrayer close at hand, etc., had already been done."

By what historical source may I check out your "ideas"?

What's extremely interesting is the fact that the Bible had prophecied all the events you've referred to hundreds of years earlier, then fullfilled all them -- complete with eye witnesses...

Now if you are looking for CNN or Fox News to have also witnessed such events, and interviewed said "witnesses", it must be admitted they weren't a source.